job approval. yeah. you do wonder how bad it has to get until they start jumping ship. at one point, i think this is the key thing, their point whether legislation will happen. not only are the numbers eroding a little bit. do you strongly approve or just approve? worst deterioration of strongly approving saying i approve but not strongly approve. the flip side, even if his numbers deteriorate lot, 20% of americans that like donal trump. that s tens of millions of people. when richard nixon left office he had a 24% approval rating. imagine if richard nixon had been run out of office and not resigned and run around office in 1974 talking about how republicans betrayed them and did that again in 76 and 80, it s very easy to imagine donald trump doing that, throwing a world of hurt on republicans that makes them worse off even if his numbers get more dire.
sense. beyond that, one other point i d like to make, and obviously trump s behavior on this is one, i hope people will not, out of this, confer sainthood on james comey. being a victim as he was, being unfairly treated does not make you a good guy. it makes you a victim. i think comey still bears a great deal of responsibility for the bad way ly way he treated hy clinton the badly way i m speaking english here while i m at it. i am disappointed that comey is not coming forward. he shouldn t have to be subpoenaed. a commitment to the truth, and i can understand why he didn t quit. i think that would have been giving trump an unearned victory. but now that he was fired, i do think the american people have a right to know that. the other point i would make is this. trump is obviously a disaster. he is a mix of impulses and